Implementing the IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller V7.4

Implementing the IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller V7.4

by Marcin Tabinowski, Libor Miklas, Hartmut Lonzer, Torben Jensen, Frank Enders, Jon Tate
Released April 2015
Publisher(s): IBM Redbooks
ISBN: 9780738440460

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Book description

This IBM® Redbooks® publication is a detailed technical guide to the IBM System Storage® SAN Volume Controller Version 7.4.

The SAN Volume Controller (SVC) is a virtualization appliance solution, which maps virtualized volumes that are visible to hosts and applications to physical volumes on storage devices. Each server within the storage area network (SAN) has its own set of virtual storage addresses that are mapped to physical addresses. If the physical addresses change, the server continues running by using the same virtual addresses that it had before. Therefore, volumes or storage can be added or moved while the server is still running.

The IBM virtualization technology improves the management of information at the “block” level in a network, which enables applications and servers to share storage devices on a network.

This book is intended for readers who want to implement the SVC at a 7.4 release level with minimal effort.

Table of contents

  1. Front cover
  2. Notices
    1. Trademarks
  3. IBM Redbooks promotions
  4. Preface
    1. Authors
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    3. Comments welcome
    4. Stay connected to IBM Redbooks
  5. Summary of changes
    1. April 2015, Fourth Edition
  6. Chapter 1. Introduction to storage virtualization
    1. 1.1 Storage virtualization terminology
    2. 1.2 Requirements driving storage virtualization
      1. 1.2.1 Benefits of using the IBM SAN Volume Controller
    3. 1.3 Latest changes and enhancements
    4. 1.4 Summary
  7. Chapter 2. IBM SAN Volume Controller
    1. 2.1 Brief history of the SAN Volume Controller
    2. 2.2 SAN Volume Controller architectural overview
      1. 2.2.1 SAN Volume Controller topology
    3. 2.3 SAN Volume Controller terminology
    4. 2.4 SAN Volume Controller components
      1. 2.4.1 Nodes
      2. 2.4.2 I/O Groups
      3. 2.4.3 System
      4. 2.4.4 Stretched system
      5. 2.4.5 MDisks
      6. 2.4.6 Quorum disk
      7. 2.4.7 Disk tier
      8. 2.4.8 Storage pool
      9. 2.4.9 Volumes
      10. 2.4.10 Easy Tier performance function
      11. 2.4.11 Evaluation mode
      12. 2.4.12 Hosts
      13. 2.4.13 Maximum supported configurations
    5. 2.5 Volume overview
      1. 2.5.1 Image mode volumes
      2. 2.5.2 Managed mode volumes
      3. 2.5.3 Cache mode and cache-disabled volumes
      4. 2.5.4 Mirrored volumes
      5. 2.5.5 Thin-provisioned volumes
      6. 2.5.6 Volume I/O governing
    6. 2.6 iSCSI overview
      1. 2.6.1 Use of IP addresses and Ethernet ports
      2. 2.6.2 iSCSI volume discovery
      3. 2.6.3 iSCSI authentication
      4. 2.6.4 iSCSI multipathing
    7. 2.7 Advanced Copy Services overview
      1. 2.7.1 Synchronous and asynchronous remote copy
      2. 2.7.2 FlashCopy
      3. 2.7.3 Image mode migration and volume mirroring migration
    8. 2.8 SAN Volume Controller clustered system overview
      1. 2.8.1 Quorum disks
      2. 2.8.2 Split I/O Groups or a stretched cluster
      3. 2.8.3 Cache
      4. 2.8.4 Clustered system management
    9. 2.9 User authentication
      1. 2.9.1 Remote authentication through LDAP
      2. 2.9.2 SAN Volume Controller user names
      3. 2.9.3 SAN Volume Controller superuser
      4. 2.9.4 SAN Volume Controller Service Assistant Tool
      5. 2.9.5 SAN Volume Controller roles and user groups
      6. 2.9.6 SAN Volume Controller local authentication
      7. 2.9.7 SAN Volume Controller remote authentication and single sign-on
    10. 2.10 SAN Volume Controller hardware overview
      1. 2.10.1 Fibre Channel interfaces
      2. 2.10.2 LAN interfaces
      3. 2.10.3 FCoE interfaces
    11. 2.11 Flash drives
      1. 2.11.1 Storage bottleneck problem
      2. 2.11.2 Flash Drive solution
      3. 2.11.3 Flash Drive market
      4. 2.11.4 Flash Drives and SAN Volume Controller
    12. 2.12 What is new with the SAN Volume Controller 7.4
      1. 2.12.1 SAN Volume Controller 7.4 supported hardware list, device driver, and firmware levels
      2. 2.12.2 SAN Volume Controller 7.4.0 new features
    13. 2.13 Useful SAN Volume Controller web links
  8. Chapter 3. Planning and configuration
    1. 3.1 General planning rules
    2. 3.2 Physical planning
      1. 3.2.1 Preparing your uninterruptible power supply unit environment
      2. 3.2.2 Physical rules
      3. 3.2.3 Cable connections
    3. 3.3 Logical planning
      1. 3.3.1 Management IP addressing plan
      2. 3.3.2 SAN zoning and SAN connections
      3. 3.3.3 iSCSI IP addressing plan
      4. 3.3.4 IP Mirroring
      5. 3.3.5 Back-end storage subsystem configuration
      6. 3.3.6 SAN Volume Controller clustered system configuration
      7. 3.3.7 Stretched cluster system configuration
      8. 3.3.8 Storage pool configuration
      9. 3.3.9 Volume configuration
      10. 3.3.10 Host mapping (LUN masking)
      11. 3.3.11 Advanced Copy Services
      12. 3.3.12 SAN boot support
      13. 3.3.13 Data migration from a non-virtualized storage subsystem
      14. 3.3.14 SVC configuration backup procedure
    4. 3.4 Performance considerations
      1. 3.4.1 SAN
      2. 3.4.2 Disk subsystems
      3. 3.4.3 SAN Volume Controller
      4. 3.4.4 Performance monitoring
  9. Chapter 4. SAN Volume Controller initial configuration
    1. 4.1 Managing the cluster
      1. 4.1.1 Network requirements for SAN Volume Controller
    2. 4.2 Setting up the SAN Volume Controller cluster
      1. 4.2.1 Service panels
      2. 4.2.2 Prerequisites
      3. 4.2.3 Initiating the cluster from the front panel
    3. 4.3 Configuring the GUI
      1. 4.3.1 Completing the Create Cluster wizard
      2. 4.3.2 Post-requisites
    4. 4.4 Secure Shell overview
      1. 4.4.1 Generating public and private SSH key pairs by using PuTTY
      2. 4.4.2 Uploading the SSH public key to the SAN Volume Controller cluster
      3. 4.4.3 Configuring the PuTTY session for the CLI
      4. 4.4.4 Starting the PuTTY CLI session
      5. 4.4.5 Configuring SSH for IBM AIX clients
    5. 4.5 Using IPv6
      1. 4.5.1 Migrating a cluster from IPv4 to IPv6
      2. 4.5.2 Migrating a cluster from IPv6 to IPv4
  10. Chapter 5. Host configuration
    1. 5.1 Host attachment overview
    2. 5.2 IBM SAN Volume Controller setup
      1. 5.2.1 Fibre Channel and SAN setup overview
    3. 5.3 iSCSI
      1. 5.3.1 Initiators and targets
      2. 5.3.2 iSCSI nodes
      3. 5.3.3 iSCSI qualified name
      4. 5.3.4 iSCSI setup of the SAN Volume Controller and host server
      5. 5.3.5 Volume discovery
      6. 5.3.6 Authentication
      7. 5.3.7 Target failover
      8. 5.3.8 Host failover
    4. 5.4 AIX-specific information
      1. 5.4.1 Configuring the AIX host
      2. 5.4.2 Operating system versions and maintenance levels
      3. 5.4.3 HBAs for IBM System p hosts
      4. 5.4.4 Configuring fast fail and dynamic tracking
      5. 5.4.5 Installing the 2145 host attachment support package
      6. 5.4.6 Subsystem Device Driver Path Control Module
      7. 5.4.7 Configuring the assigned volume by using SDDPCM
      8. 5.4.8 Using SDDPCM
      9. 5.4.9 Creating and preparing volumes for use with AIX V6.1 and SDDPCM
      10. 5.4.10 Expanding an AIX volume
      11. 5.4.11 Running SAN Volume Controller commands from an AIX host system
    5. 5.5 Microsoft Windows information
      1. 5.5.1 Configuring Windows Server 2008 and 2012 hosts
      2. 5.5.2 Configuring Windows
      3. 5.5.3 Hardware lists, device driver, HBAs, and firmware levels
      4. 5.5.4 Installing and configuring the host adapter
      5. 5.5.5 Changing the disk timeout on Windows Server
      6. 5.5.6 Installing the SDDDSM multipath driver on Windows
      7. 5.5.7 Attaching SVC volumes to Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 and to Windows Server 2012
      8. 5.5.8 Extending a volume
      9. 5.5.9 Removing a disk on Windows
    6. 5.6 Using SAN Volume Controller CLI from a Windows host
    7. 5.7 Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy
      1. 5.7.1 Installation overview
      2. 5.7.2 System requirements for the IBM System Storage hardware provider
      3. 5.7.3 Installing the IBM System Storage hardware provider
      4. 5.7.4 Verifying the installation
      5. 5.7.5 Creating free and reserved pools of volumes
      6. 5.7.6 Changing the configuration parameters
    8. 5.8 Specific Linux (on x86/x86_64) information
      1. 5.8.1 Configuring the Linux host
      2. 5.8.2 Configuration information
      3. 5.8.3 Disabling automatic Linux system updates
      4. 5.8.4 Setting queue depth with QLogic HBAs
      5. 5.8.5 Multipathing in Linux
    9. 5.9 VMware configuration information
      1. 5.9.1 Configuring VMware hosts
      2. 5.9.2 Operating system versions and maintenance levels
      3. 5.9.3 HBAs for hosts that are running VMware
      4. 5.9.4 VMware storage and zoning guidance
      5. 5.9.5 Setting the HBA timeout for failover in VMware
      6. 5.9.6 Multipathing in ESX
      7. 5.9.7 Attaching VMware to volumes
      8. 5.9.8 Volume naming in VMware
      9. 5.9.9 Setting the Microsoft guest operating system timeout
      10. 5.9.10 Extending a VMFS volume
      11. 5.9.11 Removing a datastore from an ESX host
    10. 5.10 Sun Solaris hosts
      1. 5.10.1 SDD dynamic pathing
    11. 5.11 Hewlett-Packard UNIX configuration information
      1. 5.11.1 Operating system versions and maintenance levels
      2. 5.11.2 Supported multipath solutions
      3. 5.11.3 Coexistence of SDD and PVLinks
      4. 5.11.4 Using an IBM SAN Volume Controller volume as a cluster lock disk
      5. 5.11.5 Support for HP-UX with more than eight LUNs
    12. 5.12 Using the SDDDSM, SDDPCM, and SDD web interface
    13. 5.13 More information
      1. 5.13.1 SAN Volume Controller storage subsystem attachment guidelines
  11. Chapter 6. Data migration
    1. 6.1 Migration overview
    2. 6.2 Migration operations
      1. 6.2.1 Migrating multiple extents within a storage pool
      2. 6.2.2 Migrating extents off an MDisk that is being deleted
      3. 6.2.3 Migrating a volume between storage pools
      4. 6.2.4 Migrating the volume to image mode
      5. 6.2.5 Non-disruptive Volume Move
      6. 6.2.6 Monitoring the migration progress
    3. 6.3 Functional overview of migration
      1. 6.3.1 Parallelism
      2. 6.3.2 Error handling
      3. 6.3.3 Migration algorithm
    4. 6.4 Migrating data from an image mode volume
      1. 6.4.1 Image mode volume migration concept
      2. 6.4.2 Migration tips
    5. 6.5 Data migration for Windows by using the SVC GUI
      1. 6.5.1 Windows Server 2008 host system connected directly to the DS 3400
      2. 6.5.2 Adding the SAN Volume Controller between the host system and the DS 3400
      3. 6.5.3 Importing the migrated disks into an online Windows Server 2008 host
      4. 6.5.4 Adding IBM SAN Volume Controller between the host and the DS 3400 by using the CLI
      5. 6.5.5 Migrating a volume from managed mode to image mode
      6. 6.5.6 Migrating the volume from image mode to image mode
      7. 6.5.7 Removing image mode data from the IBM SAN Volume Controller
      8. 6.5.8 Mapping the free disks onto the Windows Server 2008 server
    6. 6.6 Migrating Linux SAN disks to SVC disks
      1. 6.6.1 Connecting the IBM SAN Volume Controller to your SAN fabric
      2. 6.6.2 Preparing your IBM SAN Volume Controller to virtualize disks
      3. 6.6.3 Moving the LUNs to the IBM SAN Volume Controller
      4. 6.6.4 Migrating the image mode volumes to managed MDisks
      5. 6.6.5 Preparing to migrate from the IBM SAN Volume Controller
      6. 6.6.6 Migrating the volumes to image mode volumes
      7. 6.6.7 Removing the LUNs from the IBM SAN Volume Controller
    7. 6.7 Migrating ESX SAN disks to SVC disks
      1. 6.7.1 Connecting the IBM SAN Volume Controller to your SAN fabric
      2. 6.7.2 Preparing your IBM SAN Volume Controller to virtualize disks
      3. 6.7.3 Moving the LUNs to the IBM SAN Volume Controller
      4. 6.7.4 Migrating the image mode volumes
      5. 6.7.5 Preparing to migrate from the IBM SAN Volume Controller
      6. 6.7.6 Migrating the managed volumes to image mode volumes
      7. 6.7.7 Removing the LUNs from the IBM SAN Volume Controller
    8. 6.8 Migrating AIX SAN disks to SVC volumes
      1. 6.8.1 Connecting the IBM SAN Volume Controller to your SAN fabric
      2. 6.8.2 Preparing your IBM SAN Volume Controller to virtualize disks
      3. 6.8.3 Moving the LUNs to the IBM SAN Volume Controller
      4. 6.8.4 Migrating image mode volumes to volumes
      5. 6.8.5 Preparing to migrate from the IBM SAN Volume Controller
      6. 6.8.6 Migrating the managed volumes
      7. 6.8.7 Removing the LUNs from the IBM SAN Volume Controller
    9. 6.9 Using IBM SAN Volume Controller for storage migration
    10. 6.10 Using volume mirroring and thin-provisioned volumes together
      1. 6.10.1 Zero detect feature
      2. 6.10.2 Volume mirroring with thin-provisioned volumes
  12. Chapter 7. Advanced features for storage efficiency
    1. 7.1 Introduction
    2. 7.2 Easy Tier
      1. 7.2.1 Easy Tier concepts
      2. 7.2.2 SSD arrays and flash MDisks
      3. 7.2.3 Disk tiers
      4. 7.2.4 Easy Tier process
      5. 7.2.5 Easy Tier operating modes
      6. 7.2.6 Implementation considerations
      7. 7.2.7 Modifying the Easy Tier setting
      8. 7.2.8 Monitoring tools
      9. 7.2.9 More information
    3. 7.3 Thin provisioning
      1. 7.3.1 Configuring a thin-provisioned volume
      2. 7.3.2 Performance considerations
      3. 7.3.3 Limitations of virtual capacity
    4. 7.4 Real-time Compression Software
      1. 7.4.1 Common use cases
      2. 7.4.2 Real-time Compression concepts
      3. 7.4.3 Random Access Compression Engine
      4. 7.4.4 Random Access Compression Engine in the SVC software stack
      5. 7.4.5 Data write flow
      6. 7.4.6 Data read flow
      7. 7.4.7 Compression of existing data
      8. 7.4.8 Configuring compressed volumes
      9. 7.4.9 SVC 2145-DH8 node software and hardware updates related to Real-time Compression
      10. 7.4.10 Software enhancements
      11. 7.4.11 Hardware updates
      12. 7.4.12 Dual RACE component
  13. Chapter 8. Advanced Copy Services
    1. 8.1 FlashCopy
      1. 8.1.1 Business requirements for FlashCopy
      2. 8.1.2 Backup improvements with FlashCopy
      3. 8.1.3 Restore with FlashCopy
      4. 8.1.4 Moving and migrating data with FlashCopy
      5. 8.1.5 Application testing with FlashCopy
      6. 8.1.6 Host and application considerations to ensure FlashCopy integrity
      7. 8.1.7 FlashCopy attributes
    2. 8.2 Reverse FlashCopy
      1. 8.2.1 FlashCopy and Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager
    3. 8.3 FlashCopy functional overview
    4. 8.4 Implementing the SAN Volume Controller FlashCopy
      1. 8.4.1 FlashCopy mappings
      2. 8.4.2 Multiple Target FlashCopy
      3. 8.4.3 Consistency Groups
      4. 8.4.4 FlashCopy indirection layer
      5. 8.4.5 Grains and the FlashCopy bitmap
      6. 8.4.6 Interaction and dependency between multiple target FlashCopy mappings
      7. 8.4.7 Summary of the FlashCopy indirection layer algorithm
      8. 8.4.8 Interaction with the cache
      9. 8.4.9 FlashCopy and image mode volumes
      10. 8.4.10 FlashCopy mapping events
      11. 8.4.11 FlashCopy mapping states
      12. 8.4.12 Thin-provisioned FlashCopy
      13. 8.4.13 Background copy
      14. 8.4.14 Synthesis
      15. 8.4.15 Serialization of I/O by FlashCopy
      16. 8.4.16 Event handling
      17. 8.4.17 Asynchronous notifications
      18. 8.4.18 Interoperation with Metro Mirror and Global Mirror
      19. 8.4.19 FlashCopy presets
    5. 8.5 Volume mirroring and migration options
    6. 8.6 Native IP replication
      1. 8.6.1 Native IP replication technology
      2. 8.6.2 IP partnership limitations
      3. 8.6.3 VLAN support
      4. 8.6.4 IP partnership and SVC terminology
      5. 8.6.5 States of IP partnership
      6. 8.6.6 Remote copy groups
      7. 8.6.7 Supported configurations
      8. 8.6.8 Setting up the SVC system IP partnership by using the GUI
    7. 8.7 Remote Copy
      1. 8.7.1 Multiple SVC system mirroring
      2. 8.7.2 Importance of write ordering
      3. 8.7.3 Remote copy intercluster communication
      4. 8.7.4 Metro Mirror overview
      5. 8.7.5 Synchronous remote copy
      6. 8.7.6 Metro Mirror features
      7. 8.7.7 Metro Mirror attributes
      8. 8.7.8 Global Mirror
      9. 8.7.9 Asynchronous remote copy
      10. 8.7.10 SVC Global Mirror features
      11. 8.7.11 Using Change Volumes with Global Mirror
      12. 8.7.12 Distribution of work among nodes
      13. 8.7.13 Background copy performance
      14. 8.7.14 Thin-provisioned background copy
      15. 8.7.15 Methods of synchronization
      16. 8.7.16 Practical use of Metro Mirror
      17. 8.7.17 Practical use of Global Mirror
      18. 8.7.18 Valid combinations of FlashCopy, Metro Mirror, and Global Mirror
      19. 8.7.19 Remote Copy configuration limits
      20. 8.7.20 Remote Copy states and events
    8. 8.8 Remote Copy commands
      1. 8.8.1 Remote Copy process
      2. 8.8.2 Listing available SVC system partners
      3. 8.8.3 Changing the system parameters
      4. 8.8.4 SVC system partnership
      5. 8.8.5 Creating a Metro Mirror/Global Mirror Consistency Group
      6. 8.8.6 Creating a Metro Mirror/Global Mirror relationship
      7. 8.8.7 Changing a Metro Mirror/Global Mirror relationship
      8. 8.8.8 Changing a Metro Mirror/Global Mirror Consistency Group
      9. 8.8.9 Starting a Metro Mirror/Global Mirror relationship
      10. 8.8.10 Stopping a Metro Mirror/Global Mirror relationship
      11. 8.8.11 Starting a Metro Mirror/Global Mirror Consistency Group
      12. 8.8.12 Stopping a Metro Mirror/Global Mirror Consistency Group
      13. 8.8.13 Deleting a Metro Mirror/Global Mirror relationship
      14. 8.8.14 Deleting a Metro Mirror/Global Mirror Consistency Group
      15. 8.8.15 Reversing a Metro Mirror/Global Mirror relationship
      16. 8.8.16 Reversing a Metro Mirror/Global Mirror Consistency Group
    9. 8.9 Troubleshooting remote copy
      1. 8.9.1 1920 error
      2. 8.9.2 1720 error
  14. Chapter 9. SAN Volume Controller operations using the command-line interface
    1. 9.1 Normal operations by using CLI
      1. 9.1.1 Command syntax and online help
    2. 9.2 New commands and functions
    3. 9.3 Working with managed disks and disk controller systems
      1. 9.3.1 Viewing disk controller details
      2. 9.3.2 Renaming a controller
      3. 9.3.3 Discovery status
      4. 9.3.4 Discovering MDisks
      5. 9.3.5 Viewing MDisk information
      6. 9.3.6 Renaming an MDisk
      7. 9.3.7 Including an MDisk
      8. 9.3.8 Adding MDisks to a storage pool
      9. 9.3.9 Showing MDisks in a storage pool
      10. 9.3.10 Working with a storage pool
      11. 9.3.11 Creating a storage pool
      12. 9.3.12 Viewing storage pool information
      13. 9.3.13 Renaming a storage pool
      14. 9.3.14 Deleting a storage pool
      15. 9.3.15 Removing MDisks from a storage pool
    4. 9.4 Working with hosts
      1. 9.4.1 Creating an FC-attached host
      2. 9.4.2 Creating an iSCSI-attached host
      3. 9.4.3 Modifying a host
      4. 9.4.4 Deleting a host
      5. 9.4.5 Adding ports to a defined host
      6. 9.4.6 Deleting ports
    5. 9.5 Working with the Ethernet port for iSCSI
    6. 9.6 Working with volumes
      1. 9.6.1 Creating a volume
      2. 9.6.2 Volume information
      3. 9.6.3 Creating a thin-provisioned volume
      4. 9.6.4 Creating a volume in image mode
      5. 9.6.5 Adding a mirrored volume copy
      6. 9.6.6 Splitting a mirrored volume
      7. 9.6.7 Modifying a volume
      8. 9.6.8 I/O governing
      9. 9.6.9 Deleting a volume
      10. 9.6.10 Expanding a volume
      11. 9.6.11 Assigning a volume to a host
      12. 9.6.12 Showing volumes to host mapping
      13. 9.6.13 Deleting a volume to host mapping
      14. 9.6.14 Migrating a volume
      15. 9.6.15 Migrating a fully managed volume to an image mode volume
      16. 9.6.16 Shrinking a volume
      17. 9.6.17 Showing a volume on an MDisk
      18. 9.6.18 Showing which volumes are using a storage pool
      19. 9.6.19 Showing which MDisks are used by a specific volume
      20. 9.6.20 Showing from which storage pool a volume has its extents
      21. 9.6.21 Showing the host to which the volume is mapped
      22. 9.6.22 Showing the volume to which the host is mapped
      23. 9.6.23 Tracing a volume from a host back to its physical disk
    7. 9.7 Scripting under the CLI for SAN Volume Controller task automation
      1. 9.7.1 Scripting structure
    8. 9.8 SAN Volume Controller advanced operations by using the CLI
      1. 9.8.1 Command syntax
      2. 9.8.2 Organizing on window content
    9. 9.9 Managing the clustered system by using the CLI
      1. 9.9.1 Viewing clustered system properties
      2. 9.9.2 Changing system settings
      3. 9.9.3 iSCSI configuration
      4. 9.9.4 Modifying IP addresses
      5. 9.9.5 Supported IP address formats
      6. 9.9.6 Setting the clustered system time zone and time
      7. 9.9.7 Starting statistics collection
      8. 9.9.8 Determining the status of a copy operation
      9. 9.9.9 Shutting down a clustered system
    10. 9.10 Nodes
      1. 9.10.1 Viewing node details
      2. 9.10.2 Adding a node
      3. 9.10.3 Renaming a node
      4. 9.10.4 Deleting a node
      5. 9.10.5 Shutting down a node
    11. 9.11 I/O Groups
      1. 9.11.1 Viewing I/O Group details
      2. 9.11.2 Renaming an I/O Group
      3. 9.11.3 Adding and removing hostiogrp
      4. 9.11.4 Listing I/O Groups
    12. 9.12 Managing authentication
      1. 9.12.1 Managing users by using the CLI
      2. 9.12.2 Managing user roles and groups
      3. 9.12.3 Changing a user
      4. 9.12.4 Audit log command
    13. 9.13 Managing Copy Services
      1. 9.13.1 FlashCopy operations
      2. 9.13.2 Setting up FlashCopy
      3. 9.13.3 Creating a FlashCopy Consistency Group
      4. 9.13.4 Creating a FlashCopy mapping
      5. 9.13.5 Preparing (pre-triggering) the FlashCopy mapping
      6. 9.13.6 Preparing (pre-triggering) the FlashCopy Consistency Group
      7. 9.13.7 Starting (triggering) FlashCopy mappings
      8. 9.13.8 Starting (triggering) the FlashCopy Consistency Group
      9. 9.13.9 Monitoring the FlashCopy progress
      10. 9.13.10 Stopping the FlashCopy mapping
      11. 9.13.11 Stopping the FlashCopy Consistency Group
      12. 9.13.12 Deleting the FlashCopy mapping
      13. 9.13.13 Deleting the FlashCopy Consistency Group
      14. 9.13.14 Migrating a volume to a thin-provisioned volume
      15. 9.13.15 Reverse FlashCopy
      16. 9.13.16 Split-stopping of FlashCopy maps
    14. 9.14 Metro Mirror operation
      1. 9.14.1 Setting up Metro Mirror
      2. 9.14.2 Creating a SAN Volume Controller partnership between ITSO_SVC2 and ITSO_SVC4
      3. 9.14.3 Creating a Metro Mirror Consistency Group
      4. 9.14.4 Creating the Metro Mirror relationships
      5. 9.14.5 Creating a stand-alone Metro Mirror relationship for MM_App_Pri
      6. 9.14.6 Starting Metro Mirror
      7. 9.14.7 Starting a Metro Mirror Consistency Group
      8. 9.14.8 Monitoring the background copy progress
      9. 9.14.9 Stopping and restarting Metro Mirror
      10. 9.14.10 Stopping a stand-alone Metro Mirror relationship
      11. 9.14.11 Stopping a Metro Mirror Consistency Group
      12. 9.14.12 Restarting a Metro Mirror relationship in the Idling state
      13. 9.14.13 Restarting a Metro Mirror Consistency Group in the Idling state
      14. 9.14.14 Changing the copy direction for Metro Mirror
      15. 9.14.15 Switching the copy direction for a Metro Mirror relationship
      16. 9.14.16 Switching the copy direction for a Metro Mirror Consistency Group
      17. 9.14.17 Creating a SAN Volume Controller partnership among clustered systems
      18. 9.14.18 Star configuration partnership
    15. 9.15 Global Mirror operation
      1. 9.15.1 Setting up Global Mirror
      2. 9.15.2 Creating a SAN Volume Controller partnership between ITSO_SVC2 and ITSO_SVC4
      3. 9.15.3 Changing link tolerance and system delay simulation
      4. 9.15.4 Creating a Global Mirror Consistency Group
      5. 9.15.5 Creating Global Mirror relationships
      6. 9.15.6 Creating the stand-alone Global Mirror relationship for GM_App_Pri
      7. 9.15.7 Starting Global Mirror
      8. 9.15.8 Starting a stand-alone Global Mirror relationship
      9. 9.15.9 Starting a Global Mirror Consistency Group
      10. 9.15.10 Monitoring the background copy progress
      11. 9.15.11 Stopping and restarting Global Mirror
      12. 9.15.12 Stopping a stand-alone Global Mirror relationship
      13. 9.15.13 Stopping a Global Mirror Consistency Group
      14. 9.15.14 Restarting a Global Mirror relationship in the Idling state
      15. 9.15.15 Restarting a Global Mirror Consistency Group in the Idling state
      16. 9.15.16 Changing the direction for Global Mirror
      17. 9.15.17 Switching the copy direction for a Global Mirror relationship
      18. 9.15.18 Switching the copy direction for a Global Mirror Consistency Group
      19. 9.15.19 Changing a Global Mirror relationship to the cycling mode
      20. 9.15.20 Creating the thin-provisioned Change Volumes
      21. 9.15.21 Stopping the stand-alone remote copy relationship
      22. 9.15.22 Setting the cycling mode on the stand-alone remote copy relationship
      23. 9.15.23 Setting the Change Volume on the master volume
      24. 9.15.24 Setting the Change Volume on the auxiliary volume
      25. 9.15.25 Starting the stand-alone relationship in the cycling mode
      26. 9.15.26 Stopping the Consistency Group to change the cycling mode
      27. 9.15.27 Setting the cycling mode on the Consistency Group
      28. 9.15.28 Setting the Change Volume on the master volume relationships of the Consistency Group
      29. 9.15.29 Setting the Change Volumes on the auxiliary volumes
      30. 9.15.30 Starting the Consistency Group CG_W2K3_GM in the cycling mode
    16. 9.16 Service and maintenance
      1. 9.16.1 Upgrading software
      2. 9.16.2 Running the maintenance procedures
      3. 9.16.3 Setting up SNMP notification
      4. 9.16.4 Setting the syslog event notification
      5. 9.16.5 Configuring error notification by using an email server
      6. 9.16.6 Analyzing the event log
      7. 9.16.7 License settings
      8. 9.16.8 Listing dumps
    17. 9.17 Backing up the SAN Volume Controller system configuration
      1. 9.17.1 Prerequisites
    18. 9.18 Restoring the SAN Volume Controller clustered system configuration
      1. 9.18.1 Deleting the configuration backup
    19. 9.19 Working with the SAN Volume Controller quorum MDisks
      1. 9.19.1 Listing the SAN Volume Controller quorum MDisks
      2. 9.19.2 Changing the SAN Volume Controller quorum MDisks
    20. 9.20 Working with the Service Assistant menu
      1. 9.20.1 SAN Volume Controller CLI Service Assistant menu
    21. 9.21 SAN troubleshooting and data collection
    22. 9.22 T3 recovery process
  15. Chapter 10. SAN Volume Controller operations using the GUI
    1. 10.1 Normal SVC operations using GUI
      1. 10.1.1 Introduction to the GUI
      2. 10.1.2 Content view organization
      3. 10.1.3 Help
    2. 10.2 Monitoring menu
      1. 10.2.1 System overview
      2. 10.2.2 System details
      3. 10.2.3 Events
      4. 10.2.4 Performance
    3. 10.3 Working with external disk controllers
      1. 10.3.1 Viewing the disk controller details
      2. 10.3.2 Renaming a disk controller
      3. 10.3.3 Site awareness
      4. 10.3.4 Discovering MDisks from the external panel
    4. 10.4 Working with storage pools
      1. 10.4.1 Viewing storage pool information
      2. 10.4.2 Creating storage pools
      3. 10.4.3 Renaming a storage pool
      4. 10.4.4 Deleting a storage pool
    5. 10.5 Working with managed disks
      1. 10.5.1 MDisk information
      2. 10.5.2 Renaming an MDisk
      3. 10.5.3 Discovering MDisks
      4. 10.5.4 Assigning MDisks to a storage pool
      5. 10.5.5 Unassigning MDisks from a storage pool
    6. 10.6 Migration
    7. 10.7 Working with hosts
      1. 10.7.1 Host information
      2. 10.7.2 Adding a host
      3. 10.7.3 Renaming a host
      4. 10.7.4 Deleting a host
      5. 10.7.5 Creating or modifying a host mapping
      6. 10.7.6 Deleting a host mapping
      7. 10.7.7 Deleting all host mappings
    8. 10.8 Working with volumes
      1. 10.8.1 Volume information
      2. 10.8.2 Creating a volume
      3. 10.8.3 Renaming a volume
      4. 10.8.4 Modifying a volume
      5. 10.8.5 Modifying thin-provisioned or compressed volume properties
      6. 10.8.6 Deleting a volume
      7. 10.8.7 Deleting a host mapping
      8. 10.8.8 Deleting all host mappings for a volume
      9. 10.8.9 Shrinking a volume
      10. 10.8.10 Expanding a volume
      11. 10.8.11 Shrinking the real capacity of a thin-provisioned or compressed volume
      12. 10.8.12 Expanding the real capacity of a thin-provisioned or compressed volume
      13. 10.8.13 Migrating a volume
      14. 10.8.14 Adding a mirrored copy to an existing volume
      15. 10.8.15 Deleting a mirrored copy from a volume mirror
      16. 10.8.16 Splitting a volume copy
      17. 10.8.17 Validating volume copies
      18. 10.8.18 Migrating to a thin-provisioned volume by using volume mirroring
      19. 10.8.19 Creating a volume in image mode
      20. 10.8.20 Migrating a volume to an image mode volume
      21. 10.8.21 Creating an image mode mirrored volume
    9. 10.9 Copy Services and managing FlashCopy
      1. 10.9.1 Creating a FlashCopy mapping
      2. 10.9.2 Single-click snapshot
      3. 10.9.3 Single-click clone
      4. 10.9.4 Single-click backup
      5. 10.9.5 Creating a FlashCopy Consistency Group
      6. 10.9.6 Creating FlashCopy mappings in a Consistency Group
      7. 10.9.7 Showing related volumes
      8. 10.9.8 Moving a FlashCopy mapping to a Consistency Group
      9. 10.9.9 Removing a FlashCopy mapping from a Consistency Group
      10. 10.9.10 Modifying a FlashCopy mapping
      11. 10.9.11 Renaming a FlashCopy mapping
      12. 10.9.12 Renaming a Consistency Group
      13. 10.9.13 Deleting a FlashCopy mapping
      14. 10.9.14 Deleting a FlashCopy Consistency Group
      15. 10.9.15 Starting the FlashCopy copy process
      16. 10.9.16 Stopping the FlashCopy copy process
    10. 10.10 Copy Services: Managing remote copy
      1. 10.10.1 System partnership
      2. 10.10.2 Creating a Fibre Channel partnership between two remote SVC systems
      3. 10.10.3 Creating an IP partnership between remote SVC systems
      4. 10.10.4 Creating stand-alone remote copy relationships
      5. 10.10.5 Creating a Consistency Group
      6. 10.10.6 Renaming a Consistency Group
      7. 10.10.7 Renaming a remote copy relationship
      8. 10.10.8 Moving a stand-alone remote copy relationship to a Consistency Group
      9. 10.10.9 Removing a remote copy relationship from a Consistency Group
      10. 10.10.10 Starting a remote copy relationship
      11. 10.10.11 Starting a remote copy Consistency Group
      12. 10.10.12 Switching the copy direction for a remote copy relationship
      13. 10.10.13 Switching the copy direction for a Consistency Group
      14. 10.10.14 Stopping a remote copy relationship
      15. 10.10.15 Stopping a Consistency Group
      16. 10.10.16 Deleting stand-alone remote copy relationships
      17. 10.10.17 Deleting a Consistency Group
    11. 10.11 Managing the SAN Volume Controller clustered system by using the GUI
      1. 10.11.1 System status information
      2. 10.11.2 View I/O Groups and their associated nodes
      3. 10.11.3 View SVC clustered system properties
      4. 10.11.4 Renaming the SAN Volume Controller clustered system
      5. 10.11.5 Renaming the site information of the nodes
      6. 10.11.6 Rename a node
      7. 10.11.7 Shutting down the SAN Volume Controller clustered system
      8. 10.11.8 Power off a single node
    12. 10.12 Upgrading software
      1. 10.12.1 Updating system software
      2. 10.12.2 Update drive software
    13. 10.13 Managing I/O Groups
    14. 10.14 Managing nodes
      1. 10.14.1 Viewing node properties
      2. 10.14.2 Renaming a node
      3. 10.14.3 Adding a node to the SAN Volume Controller clustered system
      4. 10.14.4 Removing a node from the SAN Volume Controller clustered system
    15. 10.15 Troubleshooting
      1. 10.15.1 Events panel
      2. 10.15.2 Event log
      3. 10.15.3 Support panel
    16. 10.16 User management
      1. 10.16.1 Creating a user
      2. 10.16.2 Modifying the user properties
      3. 10.16.3 Removing a user password
      4. 10.16.4 Removing a user SSH public key
      5. 10.16.5 Deleting a user
      6. 10.16.6 Creating a user group
      7. 10.16.7 Modifying the user group properties
      8. 10.16.8 Deleting a user group
      9. 10.16.9 Audit log information
    17. 10.17 Configuration
      1. 10.17.1 Configuring the network
      2. 10.17.2 iSCSI configuration
      3. 10.17.3 Fibre Channel information
      4. 10.17.4 Event notifications
      5. 10.17.5 Email notifications
      6. 10.17.6 SNMP notifications
      7. 10.17.7 System options
      8. 10.17.8 Date and time
      9. 10.17.9 Licensing
      10. 10.17.10 Setting GUI preferences
    18. 10.18 Upgrading the SAN Volume Controller software
      1. 10.18.1 Precautions before the upgrade
      2. 10.18.2 SAN Volume Controller upgrade test utility
      3. 10.18.3 Upgrade procedure from version 7.3.x.x to version 7.4.x.x
      4. 10.18.4 Upgrade procedure from version 7.4.x.x to 7.4.y.y
  16. Appendix A. Performance data and statistics gathering
    1. SAN Volume Controller performance overview
    2. Performance monitoring
  17. Appendix B. Terminology
    1. Commonly encountered terms
  18. Appendix C. SAN Volume Controller stretched cluster
    1. Stretched cluster overview
  19. Related publications
    1. IBM Redbooks
    2. Other resources
    3. Referenced websites
    4. Help from IBM
  20. Back cover
  21. IBM System x Reference Architecture for Hadoop: IBM InfoSphere BigInsights Reference Architecture
    1. Introduction
    2. Business problem and business value
    3. Reference architecture use
    4. Requirements
    5. InfoSphere BigInsights predefined configuration
    6. InfoSphere BigInsights HBase predefined configuration
    7. Deployment considerations
    8. Customizing the predefined configurations
    9. Predefined configuration bill of materials
    10. References
    11. The team who wrote this paper
    12. Now you can become a published author, too!
    13. Stay connected to IBM Redbooks
  22. Notices
    1. Trademarks

Product information

  • Title: Implementing the IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller V7.4
  • Author(s): Marcin Tabinowski, Libor Miklas, Hartmut Lonzer, Torben Jensen, Frank Enders, Jon Tate
  • Release date: April 2015
  • Publisher(s): IBM Redbooks
  • ISBN: 9780738440460